Ratings

Avatar-cat Merlin, as a kitten.

I've been toying with ratings since I started blogging about books, but I couldn't come up with a system that I liked, or said "this sums it up nicely". Since I go for random most of the time, I present to you my very random ratings system:

10/10 Could not be improved on, even by angel dust and a basket of kittens
9/10 So good, you'd take it to meet your Mum
8/10 That movie that you've watched 100 times and you never get tired of
7/10 Someone else cooks dinner – yay!
6/10 Leaving work 30 minutes early
5/10 A very nice day
4/10 Why am I here?
3/10 Waking up and thinking it's Saturday on Monday
2/10 Stepping in the stuff the cat just threw up
1/10 Blind rage at the time stolen from my life

The Reading Week

It's that time of the week again: Monday.

The day in which
http://j-kaye-book-blog.blogspot.com/ asks the all-important question: What are you reading?

Well, internets, you'll be pleased to know I finally seem to have balanced my Idol obsession with reading _ I finished two books _ go me!

(BTW, Adam Lambert, still no call. I still love you in a slightly unstable fangirl kind of way, but dude ... that's cold.)

I finished Soldier in the Mist by Gene Wolfe and Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman. Then I wrote slightly incomprehensible reviews, which you can find (if you insist) by scrolling up ... and down.

I'm on a roll. Or, I would be, if I didn't have to get up at 5am tomorrow morning to fly to Wellington for a two-day work course. Sigh. Work will put me up for one night in a hotel, but not two. So instead of going up tonight, and proceeding to the training in an orderly fashion, I'm going up ridiculously early in the morning, and then going straight into the first day. Can I get a sarcastic, slowly fading yaaaaaaaaaaaaaay?

I shouldn't complain. I'm practically the only person in my department who hasn't been sent on this course. But man ....

I'm not taking my laptop with me (argh!!!!! no internets!!!) so I'll have to thank you all in advance for your witty and insightful compli-comments.

As for what I am reading now: still The Matriarch, because I keep forgetting to take a lunch break at work; I started Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh, which is May's classic, and in a study in complete contrast, Slash's autobiography. I don't really have an inner rock chick _ more of an inner slighty to the left of middle chick, but I was a teenager in the 1980s and had Appetite for Destruction on cassette tape (remember those?).

So far so good.

Happy reading everyone. :)